Bitly Makes Its Bitly Pro Features Free To All Users

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Wednesday, June 15th, 2011

Link shortening service bitly has just made its Bitly Pro features available to all its users, free of charge. In beta since 2009, Bitly Pro served over 10K shortened domains, including P.Diddy’s diddy.it (just go there, you won’t be sorry) and the Dalai Lama’s Dalaila.ma.

Users who want to try out bitly Pro (which is now just bitly) can head over to bitly, log in with an existing or new account and set up their custom short domain and domain tracking features by redirecting their domain’s DNS to Bitly’s severs.

So now you too can experience His Holiness’ URL shortening and domain analytics service of choice, without having to plunk down the cash or wait. Beat that http://T.co/.

Company: bitly
Website: bit.ly
Launch Date: 2008
Funding: $30M

bit.ly allows users to shorten, share, and track links (URLs). Reducing the URL length makes sharing easier. bit.ly can be accessed through our website, bookmarklets and a robust and open API. bit.ly is also integrated into several popular third-party tools such as Tweetdeck. A more full list of third party tools can be found on the bit.ly blog. Unique user-level and aggregate links are created, allowing users to view complete, real-time traffic and referrer data, as well as location...

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